Plant Responses to soil Pollution

Soil pollution is one of the major aspects of pollution emerging from urban
advancements including the fast pace of industrialization and uncontrolled exploitation
of natural resources. Anything beyond the threshold limit becomes pollutants.
Soil pollution minimizes the yield and quality of the crops and also alters soil
biodiversity, soil organic matter as well as groundwater which in turn disturb the
equilibrium of soil nutrients and its uptake by plants. The book discusses the grade of
soil contamination, its origin, and its aftereffects on plants and their productivity
status. Soil pertains to the multiphasic, heterogeneous environments, and successful
remediation is dependent on an interdisciplinary approach involving disciplines such
as microbiology, engineering, ecology, geology, and chemistry. In this volume,
different kinds of soil contaminants and how the soil biota and plants which are
the keystone of this ecosystem get affected at various levels are discussed in detail.
How the soil pollutants enter the food chain, accumulate in the environment, and the
techniques on remediation of problem soils are explained in the following chapters
of the book.